Varying degrees of boundarylessness? The careers of self-employed and directly employed ICT professionals in the UK and Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Kinsella, Patricia; Williams, Steve; Scott, Peter; Fontinha, Rita
Titel	Varying degrees of boundarylessness? The careers of self-employed and directly employed ICT professionals in the UK and Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unterschiedliche Grade der Grenzenlosigkeit? Die Karrieren von selbständigen und angestellten IKT-Fachleuten im Vereinigten Königreich und in Deutschland.
Quelle	In: The international journal of human resource management, 33 (2022) 8, S. 1696-1717 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5192; 1466-4399
DOI	10.1080/09585192.2020.1841815
Schlagwörter	Unsicherheit; Großbritannien; Internationaler Vergleich; Präferenz; Selbstständiger; Berufliche Mobilität; Unsicherheit; Arbeitskraftunternehmer; Berufliche Autonomie; Berufliche Flexibilität; Berufliche Mobilität; Informationstechnischer Beruf; Internationaler Vergleich; Präferenz; Institution; Abhängig Beschäftigter; Arbeitskraftunternehmer; Selbstständiger; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Despite growing interest in the influence of social and institutional settings on the nature of career trajectories, research into comparative differences in boundaryless careers is scarce. Informed by the Varieties of Capitalism approach, which emphasizes the embeddedness of employment practices within discrete types of capitalist market economy, and based on rich qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 32 self-employed and directly employed information and communications (ICT) professionals based in the UK and Germany, we investigate variation in their experience of, and attitudes towards, boundaryless careers. The research findings provide scant evidence that ICT professionals embrace boundaryless careers, despite working in a sector where positive engagement with boundarylessness, if it is going to be found anywhere, should be evident. The findings also point to cross-national differences; directly employed ICT professionals based in Germany are more concerned about the insecurity than their UK-based counterparts. In highlighting the complex and subtle influences on how boundaryless careers are experienced and understood, the research builds on existing work which both attests to the importance of context in influencing boundarylessness and its consequences and questions an overly crude distinction between 'bounded' and 'boundaryless' careers, to emphasize the value of an approach which is concerned with understanding comparative variation in the degree of career boundarylessness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/3